Coursing Notes.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 265, 22 August 1895, Page 3

Coursing Notes.

[By

Slip.]

FIXTURES. August 21 and 24—Auckland C.C. Champion Collar Stakes, Sapling Stakes, Recovery Stakes, and Final Stakes. Sept. 4—Hawkes Bay Plumpton C.C. Gathering

Nominations for the Hawke’s Bay Plumpton Coursing Club September Meeting closed last (Wednesday) night. Final payments are due on] Monday, September 2nd. The greyhound, Greater Scot, (who with Herschel decided the English Wa-

terloo Cup in 1887, was recently destroyed. He was hardly a success at the stud, his best get being Ivan the Great. Messrs Kelly and M’Gillicuddy’s greyhounds will be sold on Monday next. August 26th. Several of the members of this famous Australian kennel will doubtless realise big money. Results of yesterday’s (Wednesday) coursing will be found on a later page of this issue, and a detailed report of the meeting will appear in our next week’s. In addition to the money prize a handsome silver collar, presented by the committee, will go to the winner of the Champion Collar Stakes. Acceptances closed for the three stakes of the Auckland Coursing Club’s August Meeting on Monday evening last, when 48 dogs accepted for the Final Stakes, 13 for the Champion Collar Stakes, and 4 for the Recovery Stakes. The card was called over at the Occidental Hotel, and ~ though a large number of owners were present, very few seemed inclined to back their nominations. One or two lines at long prices were written in the Final Stakes, and a few tidy bets made in the Collar Stakes, the principal wager of the evening being that of Mr C. Whitten, who took £5O to £5 about Guy Fawkes. *